In December, I wrote about American Giant, a San Francisco-based apparel startup that had perfected the hooded sweatshirt. Actually, that’s putting it mildly. I didn’t just write about American Giant.

Charting the meteoric rise and fall of America’s fastest growing retailer in the late 2000s and early 2010s, Netflix’s Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel dropped on the streaming site on 1 July ...

Part of President Donald Trump’s appeal is his pledge to bring jobs back to America. There’s a San Francisco apparel manufacturer who has tried his luck both ways – manufacturing abroad and in the US.

One by one, the remnants of “old” American Apparel have been stripped away. The company recently fired longtime creative directors Marsha Brady and Iris Alonzo—the latter of whom, according to our ...

It’s my favorite time of the year: hoodie season! If you’re looking for the perfect hoodie or just want to add to your collection, I looked at a handful of popular options and break it all down for ...

A young woman named Mariona lounges on her knees and forearms. She wears a provocative expression and tight red American Apparel booty shorts. The advertisement’s headline: “Made in USA — Sweatshop ...

It’s finally over for American Apparel, the trendy turned-scandal plagued clothing brand whose first store opened in 1997. On Thursday, a bankruptcy court in Delaware approved an $88 million sale of ...

Reporting from Washington — With its second bankruptcy filing in a little more than a year and an agreement to sell its brand to a Canadian firm, American Apparel Inc.’s tumultuous corporate history ...